[Intro] Sodium rain on blocky streets, shoes ticking slow. [Verse 1] Rock-pop night, we drifted out, the posters bled neon thin. Gave her my finest LPs, like they could buy me in. Took her hand—mine a furnace, hers a winter windowpane. I walked beside a quiet storm and never said a thing. [Melodic Interlude] [Verse 2] Freckles in the streetlight glow, short black hair, straight spine. She smiled like a distant town you see but never find. Said, “Friends,” like it was mercy; I heard a closing door. Some roads you learn by losing what you thought you came here for. [Pre-Chorus] She kept cool as a dog’s nose; I burned like a boiler room. Every joke I tried to light died out too soon. [Chorus] Call it friendship—I can’t pay that price. In every “just friends” one heart burns, one turns to ice. If that’s the deal, then count me out tonight— I’ll keep my silence under borrowed lights. [Melodic Interlude] [Verse 3] Wrote a poem, sent it over; she said, “Did you copy this?” Funny how the doubt can land right where you plant your wish. Dial tone like a harbor fog—I called and couldn’t speak. Her hello was all I wanted; my courage sprung a leak. [Pre-Chorus] I learned the shape of answers by the ones that never came, and how a perfect hour can end without a name. [Chorus] Call it friendship—I can’t pay that price. In every “just friends” one heart burns, one turns to ice. If that’s the deal, then count me out tonight— I’ll keep my silence under borrowed lights. [Melodic Interlude] [Bridge] Maybe love’s a station where my train just didn’t slow; some nights you wave at windows and nobody waves back, you know. [Solo – 8 bars, lyrical, clean tone > speed] [Final Chorus + Unison Tag] Call it friendship—leave me to the night; streetlight freckles fade, I’ll be all right. (Not every spark is fire tonight.) [Outro]
